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Re:The first Gen III+ Nuclear plant begins fuel loading by HyperSane on Friday October 14, 2022 @10:46PM (#33211213)
It is a legitimate risk of your proposal.
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Re:The first Gen III+ Nuclear plant begins fuel loading by wumpus on Saturday October 15, 2022 @12:16AM (#33211702)
Did you reply to the correct comment? I didn't propose anything.
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Re:The first Gen III+ Nuclear plant begins fuel loading by bigfudge on Saturday October 15, 2022 @03:33AM (#33212650)
Nuclear power plants also have a low probability catastrophic failure mode. If it was a risk we’d engineer to mitigate it.
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Re:The first Gen III+ Nuclear plant begins fuel loading by lazide on Saturday October 15, 2022 @02:53PM (#33217517)
The referenced plan was to explicitly not do so. And ‘happens every decade or so in the US’ is a lot more frequent than meltdowns, and not very far down the tail as far as such things go.
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